Feast of Transfiguration is celebrated at spiritual center of the UOC-U.S.A.

SOUTH BOUND BROOK, N.J. – The Feast of the Transfiguration, celebrated on August 19 (according to the Julian ecclesiastical calendar) gathered about 200 people for the eucharistic divine liturgy at St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle Ukrainian Orthodox Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, N.J. With the blessing of Metropolitan Antony, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A., who was in attendance for the very first time after his car accident, Archbishop Daniel served the divine liturgy with the help of local parochial clergy: the Very Rev. Yuriy Siwko (pastor of St. Andrew Memorial Church), the Rev. Myron Korostil and Hieromonk Sophroniy of Three Holy Hierarchs Chapel of St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary. Metropolitan Antony, while in a wheelchair, and Archbishop Daniel read the Prayers for the Blessing of Fruits, and the blessed fruit and vegetables were shared by the faithful along with the antidoron (blessed bread).